On the Virtue of Goodness
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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

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On the Virtue of Goodness

Fr. Lawrence Farley

Goodness, as we see from the words and works of God in the Scriptures, is binary and discriminating. That is, it discriminates virtue from vice, and righteousness from evil.

Go to Christ!
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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

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Go to Christ!

Discourse on the Sunday after Theophany

Metropolitan Meletios of Nikopolis

The Kingdom of Heaven is close to us. It should be spiritually close to us! But we have to understand: Are we spiritually close to Christ, or far away from Him?

Life of Our Holy Father Sava I
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Life of Our Holy Father Sava I

Enlightener and First Archbishop of the Serbs (+1235)

This young child, Rastko, whose monastic name later was Sava, became and still remains the most beloved of all Serbian Orthodox saints, considered by all Serbs everywhere and at all times as the ultimate expression and example of what it means to be fully human, that is, what it means to be a devout and committed follower of Jesus Christ.

The cause of destruction of the antediluvian civilization
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Theology

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The cause of destruction of the antediluvian civilization

Talks on the book of Genesis 6

Andrei Solodkov

In another conversation on the book of Genesis, Andrei Ivanovich Solodkov speaks about why it repented the Lord that He had made man on the earth (Gen. 6:6), what was foreshadowed by the ark made by Noah, how the holy fathers interpret its arrangement, what was Noah’s first act after the flood and what it teaches us.

How Should We Build Our Prayer Rule?
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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

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How Should We Build Our Prayer Rule?

It is impossible to imagine a meaningful Christian life without a daily prayer rule. But what should this prayer rule be? How long or short, and consisting of which prayers? How can we prevent our daily prayer rule from becoming purely a formality? What should we pay particular attention to, and what mistakes should we avoid? And what is the most important thing in a prayer rule?